The hysterica which has taken over this MB and the talking heads for the past few days would be funny if displayed in a movie. Herd mentality is not rational, and it is not funny when it shapes the politics of the day.
What damage is done if a temple or church or mosque is built? And yet a local board approved a building and the herd went hysterical.
Stop for a minute and consider how an average muslim might feel by the 'outrage' of Gingrich, Palin or Peter King (R, NY) who characterize a billion people who worship in the Islamic Faith unworthy, simply because of their culture and the religion they practice.
The actors who carried out the mass murder on Sept. 11, 2001 were extremists, those who condemn a billion people for the acts of a few prove they too subscribe to an ends and means philosophy.
Those who don't question the motives of politicians and propagandists who create the climate of hysteria are no less extreme, for the words of hate spewed by Gingrich, Palin, King, Limbaugh, et al lead to the death of innocents, as surely as the actions of the 19 criminals did on Nine-Eleven.
Ahh those consequences, hmm thats fine from an isolationist point of view from someone who has never been over in those countries, but what about other consequences? Perhaps you forget about the men and women overseas in service to this country, perhaps you forget about the extremist muslims whom will use this as a victory call and recruit more lost souls to their cause, perhaps you forget about that this will now cause more bloodshed. Now if we were isolationist and we were not over in those countries, by all means build it. but your going to cause an upsurge in extremists if this is built, are you prepared to deal with those consequences? You are not dealing with rational people, you totaly do not get it and perhaps never will. these people are not like americans, and use anything to get an advantage to kill and cause death, and while you sit there saying this is right you are not looking at the big picture at all, it is in very poor taste.
I hope you never lose a loved one over there, or even have a loved one wounded over there. Hell they kill each other just to make a point , we as americans can never understand those people or hope to subvert them to a peaceful way of existance, even if they get what they all want, they will still kill each other and anyone else. Politicians will never understand that either, they will sit there and talk to diplomats and get lied to all day long, and believe all the crap that they are told. Build it and see what happens you have been warned, but then you may think its something else causing the violence and will probably never get it.
I have seen these moderate muslims in Saudi kill a child/ stone people to death/ crush people/ yes these peaceful people you talk about, but hell it is their country so no big deal! it can't happen here right? there will never be any honor killings in America, right? the thousands of people I saw partake in the killings over there some of them friggin passports and visa to the US. No big deal right they are peaceful. heck some of them were there doing their pilgrimage from america but thats fine.
Heck even the the old testament states they will be in all nations and raise their hands against all nations, even if your not religious, they are and it is very real to them, which definately makes it very real for everybody. Build it somewhere else, no need to build it there!
No, there's plenty of blame to go around starting from Ronnie forward. At least the Dems have a goal...no matter how poorly articulated it is...the Reps have nothing but dross.
